News tagged with massive stars
Related topics: stars , galaxies , neutron stars , black holes , star formation
Starring Intelligent Aliens
The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found.
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Astronomers explore 'last blank space' on map of the Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most distant object ever discovered is described in this week's edition of the science journal Nature. Two international teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Watching a Supernova Come and Go
(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were spawned inside the progenitor stars.
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Making Massive Stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our understanding of star formation leans heavily on observations of stars like the sun, namely, those that are modest in mass and that are born and evolve at a relatively leisurely pace. ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Massive Stars Near the Galactic Center
The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of our galaxy is a giant complex of molecular gas and dust situated in the innermost 700 light-years of the Milky Way. Although the galaxy is over 100,000 light-years in size, ...
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Star-birth myth 'busted' (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope.
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. Like grocery stores selling melons ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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The Edge of a Black Hole
The existence of black holes is one of the most amazing and bizarre predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Despite his original misgivings about their reality, massive black hole holes are today believed ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Integral satellite disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.
Jul 22, 2009 |
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A Galaxy Collision in Action
This beautiful image gives a new look at Stephan's Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million light years from Earth. The curved, light blue ridge running ...
Jul 09, 2009 |
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New class of black holes discovered
A new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Supernova remnant is an unusual suspect
A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a supernova remnant with a different look. This object, known as SNR 0104-72.3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Queen's astronomers propose new supernova interpretation
In a controversial new paper in the journal Nature, astronomers from Queen's University Belfast have proposed a new physical interpretation of a supernova discovered on 7th November 2008.
Jun 09, 2009 |
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A new class of dim supernovae
The colossal stellar explosions called supernovae come in many kinds and flavours. Some of them are produced when a massive star reaches the end of its life in a sudden gravitational collapse. Astronomers ...
Jun 05, 2009 |
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